When I saw that “shining city on a hill” ad, it made me want to gag, because I hated Reagan. I was not the only one!
Ronald Reagan Wasn’t the Good Guy President Anti-Trump Republicans Want You to Believe In, by Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue for the win:
Trump is not a foil to Reagan; he is the natural evolution of the GOP’s emphasis on telegenic oppressors. It only makes sense that, 40 years after a movie star set this country on a course toward nationalism and economic exploitation, a reality TV star is doing everything he can to accelerate a downward spiral into mythical American exceptionalism that Reagan wrote the script for.